- SoC & Chiplet Architecture
- Design-for-Test
- Functional Safety
Varun Singh
I work on how large chips are architected, designed, connected, tested, and proven correct.
Digital design and DFT leader with 10+ years across SoC integration, system IP development, and test infrastructure. Delivered 5+ high-volume production SoCs and 2 production IPs for automotive, industrial, and AI markets.

Industry experience
Tenstorrent
2026 –
AI & HPC silicon
Cadence
2022 – 2026
IP R&D
Texas Instruments
2017 – 2022
Automotive & industrial SoCs
Luxima Technology
2016 – 2017
CMOS image sensors
- U.S. patents
- 12issued
6 invention families · 3 more pending
- production SoCs
- 5+shipped
Automotive, industrial, AI
- in silicon
- 10+years
Across 16nm to 1.4nm nodes
- production IPs
- 2commercial
NoC and DFT infrastructure
Selected work
Four programmes that shipped, spanning interconnect, test infrastructure, and full-lifecycle SoC integration.
- 01Cadence · 2022–26
JANUS non-coherent NoC IP
Design lead for a packet-based, wire-optimized, generatable, FuSa-compliant network-on-chip. Now offered commercially as Cadence IP.
- NoC
- ISO 26262
- RTL generation
- 02Cadence · 2023–26
DFT-specific test network
Pioneered a network architecture that distributes test across an SoC automatically, in-field or on ATE. Validated on advanced-node (1.4nm) customer test chips.
- DFT
- In-field test
- 1.4nm
- 03Texas Instruments · 2017–22
Memory self-repair & PBIST
Architected improved memory built-in self-repair delivering measurable yield gain and reduced FIT rate in production, plus 16nm PBIST infrastructure for ASIL-D certification.
- MBIST
- Yield
- ASIL-D
- 04Texas Instruments · 2017–22
TDA4 & AM64x SoC integration
Microarchitect for clocking, debug, and power on the Jacinto 7 ADAS platform; led top-level integration across 5+ automotive and industrial SoCs.
- SoC integration
- ADAS
- 16nm
Education & certification
M.S. Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California · 2017
B.Tech. Electronics & Communication
SRM Institute of Science and Technology · 2015
ISO-26262 Functional Safety Engineer
SGS-TÜV Saar
ISO/SAE 21434 Cybersecurity Engineer
TÜV SÜD